How to Make a Paper Bag Book for Kids

This quick tutorial shows how to make a paper bag book for your kids for hours of creative fun!

Summer is the perfect time for kids to work on their writing skills. Whether they create a fictional story, a nature journal, or a travelogue, the lazy days of summer allow them the time to be creative. Since there are no grades the pressure is off and kids can write and create just for fun.

When my kids were young they enjoyed not just writing books, but also creating them from scratch. This allowed them to have fun with all of the roles of book creation: author, illustrator, publisher, and book binder.

This paper bag book tutorial is an easy and fun way for kids to bind their own books. You just need brown paper bags, twine, printer paper, and a few office supplies to quickly make up these paper bag books for kids.

How to Make a Paper Bag Book for Kids

Supplied Needed:

4 brown paper lunch sacks

Colorful twine

White paper

Double sided tape

Hole puncher

Measuring tape

Scissors

Crayons

Directions:

1. Lie your paper bags on top of each other, all facing the same way, with the fold on the back.

2. Fold your bags in half together and use your hole punch to punch 3 holes.

3. Tie a piece of colored twine in each hole (I tied 3 different colors in each hole) and trim to about 1″ long.

Each summer our whole family gets together for one week at the lake! I always bring crafts for rainy days. This summer 2018, eachgrandchild made a paper bag book. We took pictures all during the week and printed them out on my sprocket printer. These are 2×3 size pictures. They could glue/stick the pictures on each page and then write about their adventure that day.

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